[firesteelrain]

You just described the role of Terraform. HCL is very JSON like and human readable

[rirze]

fwiw, you can write Terraform in JSON too. Not recommending it, but it's equivalent.

[firesteelrain]

Yea HashiCorp talks about it but also does not recommend it

[twic]

I've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?

[firesteelrain]

They write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.

[twic]

So not what i described at all then. The whole idea is to have a low-level language you can generate with high-level code written in a real programming language.

[firesteelrain]

IaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops